hasidic

Make Your Voice Heard

A strange thing happened in the wake of the election, and is intensifying now that the inauguration is next week.People ...

The Previous Tenant

In October 2007, my husband and I were looking for an apartment in Brooklyn. We’d seen too many to count ...

Make Art, Jews!

The recent Pew survey on Jewish America released earlier this month seems to confirm what many already believe: those of us outside ...

Encountering the Hasidic Enclave

Jews of Today could never have begun as a project had I not encountered the phenomenon of the Hasidic enclave. As ...

A House Divided

In my last blog post, I wrote about the genesis of my book,  Among Righteous Men , and the emotional connection ...

Jews, Non-Jews, and Being Losers Together

Yesterday, I put out a Twitter call: What should I write about? The always-dependable dlevy asked, in reply, “have you ...

Publishing a Real Life Old-Fashioned Book

Here’s the thing about being both an author and a blogger: It makes you impatient. When I write a rant ...